Chapter 74, Shelling of Liu/An County

The guerrillas of more than 100 people watched the team in front of them slowly leave with trepidation, looking at their direction, they should be heading towards Lu'an.

"Ergou, Wang Sanzhu, you go back to the village immediately and report this to the above, and the rest of the people follow me and follow them." The partisan captain ordered.

"Yes." The two of them answered, and immediately left the team, while the others followed their captain far behind Lu Qiang.

Starting from the morning, I didn't stop at noon, I nibbled on a compressed biscuit for lunch, drank some water, and finally arrived near Lu'an in the evening, when there were still 10 miles away from Lu'an, I slowed down.

The closer you get to Lu'an, the more devils you encounter, since you passed that turret, you met one or two at first, and later, at most, you encountered 11 devils and 23 puppet army actions at most.

"Our weapons and equipment are stronger than those of the devils, so there is no need to fight a night battle and sneak attack, the time of the attack is at five o'clock in the morning tomorrow, the first choice is artillery bombardment, and when the shelling is completed, it should be dawn, and then the infantry and tanks will attack." In a tent set up temporarily, Lu Qiang pointed to the combat map and said, "The defending enemy in Lu'an County has a brigade of more than 1,100 people, plus the puppet army, there are about 2,000 people. ”

After a pause, Lu Qiang looked at the monkey again, "Monkey, you can tell me about the direction of the attack and the combat target." ”

"Yes!" The monkey and Lu Qiang exchanged glances, then said later, and then pointed to the map on the table and said, "This is the map of Lu'an County and the deployment map of the devil, the main target of our attack this time is the camp of the devil, and after the camp of the devil, we will almost take most of Lu'an City." Although the devils are all over the city during the day, they will inevitably return to the camp to sleep at night, even if it is late, and at four or five o'clock in the morning, almost all the devils return to the camp, which is why they attack at five o'clock. After a pause, the monkey picked up the kettle on the table and took a sip of water, and then continued: "According to the map, the devil's camp is the closest to the east gate of the county seat, so our attack direction is placed at the east gate. ”

After the combat order was issued, and then they began to work on their own hands, the most important thing is the artillery, plus howitzers were pressed at a distance of 10,000 meters from Lu'an County, and the position of the cannon was relatively forward, after all, they were direct-fire artillery, and the fewer obstacles, the better, so they were pressed at a distance of 7,000 meters from the city, and in the early hours of tomorrow morning, with a toast as a number, a big bomb / B was released, and the little devil was killed.

Ahem, it's night, quiet, the moon in the sky is very round and bright, shining on the earth, Lu Qiang's camp, because it can't be lit, is all in the dark, making the final preparations before the war, and doesn't set up tents, all wrapped in sleeping bags, sleeping at will.

In the middle of the night, many people were woken up by the cold, and then they couldn't sleep again, on the one hand, because it was a little cold, and more importantly, they were thinking about waiting for a while to fight, many of them were on the battlefield for the first time, and they were both afraid and excited about the upcoming war, because they knew that the war would kill people, so they were afraid, but out of curiosity about the unknown, so they were excited.

At half past four o'clock in the morning, the artillery all got up, first of all, a routine assembly, and then each team carried a box of ammunition to the artillery position. The Zhu Yuan of the cannon was calibrated last night, and the hoe was buried in the soil early, and now the cannon coat is lifted, and the cannon can be cleaned up, and if you can, you can check it again.

"Cannonballs are loaded!" The captain of the five-man artillery team gave an order, and a gunner picked up a more than 50 kilogram anti-explosive bomb and laboriously stuffed it into the chamber.

With a "clang" the shell was stuffed into the chamber, the gun valve was closed, except for one with the gun rope standing with his back to the gun, straightening the gun rope, waiting for the order, and the other four gunners also crouched down with their backs to the gun, waiting for the gun to fire.

Minutes and seconds passed, and the hour hand slowly pointed to the figure "5".

"Tick Tick Tick Tick !!" The mechanical watch sounded softly, the second hand turned round and round, and suddenly, along with the minute hand, it reached the position of the number "12", and the hour hand also pointed to the figure "5".

"Fire!" The commander ordered loudly, waving a small red flag in his hand.

After receiving the order, the gun in the No. 1 running position on the far left and front of the entire artillery position, the gunner was ordered to pull the gun rope that was originally pulled hard, "Boom! "The firing pin hit the propellant, and the entire artillery instantly spewed out more than ten meters of flames, and the earth shook violently under the recoil, and the shock wave of the cannon swept everything around. A few leaves not far away had not yet fallen, and suddenly a shockwave swept by, and all the leaves on the trees were gone.

After the first cannon was fired, every second or so, the gun at the No. 2 gun position to his right also fired, one after the other, in order from left to right and from front to back.

The power of the 152mm heavy gun can be seen from the shock wave when fired. The guerrillas hiding in the nearby hills, except for a few sentry posts, were all huddled together and slept in their clothes. A loud roar woke them all up at once, "What's wrong?" The startled partisan leader shouted in a hurry, but quickly calmed down, listened carefully, the roar came from the artillery position they were staring at, and hurriedly picked up the tattered 2.5x Zeiss telescope in his pocket.

When the cannon was fired, the flames that erupted more than ten meters away, the huge shock wave, and the dust stirred up circled and circled, even if it was a hill away, he could feel the vibration of the ground, the power of each shell.

Many guerrillas were stunned by the roar of the artillery, and they had only seen the 70mm caliber of the 92 infantry gun, and they had not even seen the devil's standard 105mm howitzer, and they could not imagine what a magnificent scene of the 152mm artillery firing was. "This, this ......" One person was speechless in shock, although he knew that the cannon with a barrel thicker than his thigh must be very powerful when it was fired, but after really seeing it, he was completely shocked.

In the early hours of the morning, a sentry devil squinted, made a big snort, patted the boss's mouth, and the body that stood straight immediately stiffened, with tears in the corners of his eyes, turned his head to look at the dark camp, and yearned for it, but it was not yet the time to hand over the shift, and there was still 1 hour before the shift, so he had to be patient, continue to stand guard, straighten his stiff waist, and barely stand straight.

"Whew~~" Suddenly, there was a whining sound in the sky, the sound was more sharp, and in the two seconds he was stunned, the whining unknown object had flown over his head and fell towards the camp, and the sound became louder and louder. "Enemy attack, artillery shells !!" The little devil standing guard shouted in surprise, he was drowsy or something, and hurriedly grabbed the bell beside him and shook it vigorously.

Unfortunately, it was too late, the cannonball flashed in the night sky, smashed directly into a room, and after 0.1 seconds, an orange dazzling light emitted, rising smoke and dust several stories high, and the shock wave of the explosion swept everything around. It was only after a second that the devil standing guard heard the loud explosion that was deafening, and the whole earth trembled, "Boom!! The roar was mixed with a shockwave that nearly blew him off the watchtower.

Immediately after that, the second, the third, the fourth...... The shells rained down, and the entire devil's camp exploded completely. Since they have been on the land of China, they have been fighting a good war, and they are still second-line troops, they have not been to the front-line battlefield at all, and the battles they have fought are fought with guerrilla bandits, so they have never suffered any losses, in addition to the period of time they were stationed in Lu'an County, they plagued the people every day, lingered in the fireworks and willow alleys, and their combat effectiveness plummeted. Bombing the camp is also a luxury, the whole camp is trembling under the heavy artillery, countless devils are blown to ashes in their sleep, and the road is full of devils running around, wearing only a thin underwear, holding a 38 big cover in his hand, wearing a steel helmet on his head, looking for the enemy's figure everywhere.

Shao Zuo, who woke up, hurriedly got dressed, took the command knife leaning against the bed, and rushed out of the room, and a wave of heat suddenly hit his face, almost knocking him over. The big orange fireworks that bloomed in the dark night were dazzling, but in his opinion, they were simply hellfire. Visually measured the power of the explosion, at least above the caliber of 130mm, but he couldn't care about it so much, why went to the command room, I hope it wasn't blown up, he now needs tactical guidance, all kinds of guidance.

Shao Zuo, who rushed to the headquarters, found that the things inside were still intact, except for the dust that fell down and covered all the things in the room, at this time, he couldn't care so much, so he hurriedly ran to the radio, turned on the radio, and sent a telegram to the headquarters.

I turned on the radio station, immediately put the headphones on my head, and began to press the button, the main content of the telegram "Di Di Da Da", the main content of which was that they received an attack, and the enemy had many heavy artillery pieces with a caliber of about 150 mm, asking for tactical guidance, and also sent a copy to the air, asking the planes to find the enemy's position and blow it up.

The two telegrams were sent, and suddenly, his whole person was much more relaxed, and suddenly, there was a "whine" sound above his head, which became deeper and lower, and Shao Zuo, who was sitting on the chair, instantly widened his eyes, hurriedly stood up, and ran out of the house at the fastest speed in his life. The shell smashed through the roof and fell in front of him, he could almost see the white text on the shell, and the body of the shell was slowly turning, and he could even feel the chilling heat on the shell. "Smack!" The bomb slammed into the ground, splashing solid clods of earth in all directions, and a fist-sized clod of earth smashed hard into her face, smashing him directly to the head.

"Boom!" Soaring into the sky, the entire command was like a dirt plane, blowing up into the sky, and then falling apart, turning into a pile of ruins, as for that Shao Zuo, he had long since disappeared, perhaps the blood stains sprinkled on the ground were the only proof of his existence in this world.